“It was definitely targeted”: 21 Savage speaks out on ICE arrest for the first time

21 Savage has publicly spoken out for the first time since he was arrested and detained by immigration officials in the US earlier this month.

The acclaimed rapper, real name She’yaa Bin Abraham Joseph, was arrested by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) earlier this month as the department claimed that the rapper is a British citizen who “is unlawfully present in the U.S.” after overstaying his visa.

Recalling the moment of the original arrest in the interview, which aired in the US this morning (February 15), he said: “I was just driving. And I just seen guns and blue lights. And, then, I was in the back of a car. And I was gone.

Savage also said that he was reluctantly “accepting” about the prospect that he could be deported following the outcome of his upcoming hearing, as he’s “learned to embrace the times when I’m down, because they always build me up and take me to a new level in life.

“Even if I’m sitting in a cell on 23-hour lockdown, in my mind, I know what’s gonna come after that,” he added. “So I’m not happy about it. But I’m accepting of it.”